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good morning, will she walk? it's sentencing day for casey anthony and all eyes are on the judge this morning as she'll leave court as a free woman. this as one juror speaks out about the wrenching decision to find casey anthony not guilty. newow -- a top-selling newspaper accused of listening to voice mail of celebrities, murder victims, and the widows of soldiers. something the prime minister calls absolutely disgusting.
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and grizzly attack. a hiker mauled by a bear inside yellowstone national park, the first such fatality in 25 years. parts of the park are closed as officials there try to figure why it happened on thursday, officials there try to figure why it happened on thursday, july 7, 2011. captions paid for by nbc-universal television welcome to "today" on this thursday morning. i'm ann curry. >> i'm david gregory in for matt today. a lot of anticipation this morning. orlando, florida, that's where casey anthony's sentencing hearing is being held this morning. >> she faces up to four years in prison for lying to investigators. given the nearly three years she' been behind bars, some legal experts believe anthony could be sentenced a time already served and could walk free. the latest of a live report
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straight ahead. and george and cindy anthony's attorney speaks out for a live interview. >> jaycee dugard lived in con stand fear. she was held by phillip and nancy garrido. now she's opened up in her own words and why she never tried to escape. >> important health news. why are a growing number of older women now suffering from eating disorders. one woman is sharing her emotional story with us this morning. >> the final day of the canadian leg of prince william and catherine's tour, then on to california. live with them for the latest stop with more on the a-list celebrities waiting to greet the royal couple in los angeles. let's begin with this morning's sentencing of casey anthony. kerry sanders is outside orlando. good morning. >> good morning, ann. casey anthony may have spend her last night in jail.
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we believe she's in the courthouse now brought here as a sole inmate in a jailhouse van early this morning. she's spent two years, nine months in jail. the judge could decide that's a sufficient amount of time for the conviction that she's been handed down by the jury. however, it may not be so easy because 15 of the months that she spent in jail were already applied to an older conviction for check fraud. >> reporter: casey anthony heads back to court today acquitted for murder for one simple reason -- the prosecution failed to prove its case. juror number three spoke to abc news. >> if you're going to charge someone, don't you know how they killed someone, where, when, why, how -- not guilty doesn't mean nen. >> justice for caylee! >> reporter: despite the
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outrage, the jury was well aware this was a death penalty case. >> in our country, you have to prove it. looks bad, smells bad, i get that. if it's someone else's wrong and i get that wrong and i kill someone else, i can't live with that. >> casey anthony was found guilty of four misdemeanor counts of lying to law enforcement officers. remember her first recorded interrogation when she told the detectives a nanny named zany had taken caylee. >> everything you told me is a lie. >> not everything i told you. >> pretty much, including where caylee is right now. >> i don't know where she is. >> sure you do. >> reporter: the judge -- >> i want all of you bright-eyed and bushy tailed. >> could sentence her to four years in jail or let her walk free figuring the two years and
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nine months she's held in jail have been enough. >> this is lying about a missing child that mobilized an entire community of law enforcement, cost millions of dollars in searching for a missing child that's already dead. that's a big lie. >> reporter: on wednesday, casey's parents, cindy and george left home again with nothing to say publicly. the anthony family has received death threats. while outside of the courthouse, mike estherly put a sign in her window that reads "baby killer". >> how can she be free after she killed her baby. >> reporter: most protesters are venting anger, there's always a possibility one could act out, targeting tanthony family, including casey when she's released or the 12 jurors. >> some of them will be vetted and found out and people will
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know who they are and they're terrified of that coming out. >> it's unclear when casey is released either today or ever if she'll earn money off of her notoriety. to that end, the state has filed a motion to tax her if she is earning any profits after this. there is a law in florida that allows the prosecution to recover the costs from the investigation and the prosecution and those costs easily exceed $1 million. >> kerry sanders, kerry, interesting point. mark lipman is george and cindy anthony's attorney. good morning to you. >> good morning, ms. curry. >> do george and cindy anthony want their daughter release? >> i can't discuss what they want because of attorney/client privilege but i'll be there today. >> what do you think of the
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relationship they'll have with her moving forward? >> we hoped to meet with ms. baez yesterday but he was out of the state. as far as his client is concerned, i can't discuss what she wants. >> do they think that casey is innocent? >> well, they -- as they said, the jury decided what they felt and what they thought and they have to go by what the jury thinks. i can't give my own opinion because it's a reflection of what they think. we'll have to remain silent on that for right now. >> how did they react to the statement that casey wants more children? >> i believe that's from a letter from a while ago. it's something we haven't discussed. i couldn't tell you either way. but either way, everyone needs to move on and try to rebuild their lives from this. >> can you describe their emotions since the verdict? >> it's one that's still sinking
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in. if you can imagine one losing your grand daughter, and, two, three years of a living hell of going through depositions, searches, trials, just the tribulations these people have faced just from the outside has been enormous and something that no one could expect to be able to go through with the grace and dignity they've got to be able to keep going. >> is there anger, especially given the defense claims? >> certainly, there is anger as to the claims to sexual molestation. and there's anger as to the claims that my client george anthony had anything to do with the movement of kay lcaleigh's . they had to defend their client. i know those things were baseless. >> meantime, the multiple death threats that we're hearing about, can you characterize them, the intensity, and how much fear your kleins have as a result of it? >> well, i'd like to thank the
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orange county sheriff's office for taking care of my clients so well. yesterday i saw thaw mowned police surrounding the area as well. some of them are valid, some of them are just people e-mailing their feelings saying i hope you're all dead. but from there, if it's coming from nebraska, i don't necessarily consider it as a major level threat. if it's someone in orlando, we have to have concern. >> on this broadcast yesterday, jeff ashton said there's enough to file a perjury case against cindy. had she reacted -- what is your reaction to that? >> i'm a worst case scenario type of attorney. we're prepared if we decide to charge her with perjury to defend her vigorously. my client maintains she did the searches. it would cause a lot of additional issues nobody wants to face. if the state deems it necessary
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to file, we'll be there. but i'm hoping and praying they don't do it. >> listen,hank you so much for joining us this morning. >> thanks very much. >> now here's david. washington in the debate over raising the federal debt ceiling from keeping the united states on defaulting on its loans for the first time ever. president obama is summoning the two sides for a summit decision. you'll be there. good morning. >> good morning, david. >> there's new signs of openness. the president is talking about a larger package of spending cuts and medicare spending. you signaled to openness for raising revenues. do you think there's room for a deal here. >> yesterday, david, i said it was in response to the president's demands that we not hold up a deal based on any objections to plugging corporate loopholes and he specifically
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talked about corporate jet owners. my response to him that's not why talks have stalled here in this town. why talks have stalled why i left the so-called biden talks had to do with the fact of a fundamental disagreement that we shouldn't raise taxes right now. you know and i know that it's counterintuitive in a sputtering economy to raise taxes when we need to get people back to work. >> raising tax rates is one thing. you're opposed to that. are you willing to consider raising revenues through closing loopholes and other deductions to bring money in to the federal treasury? >> what i said first of all, preferences, special loopholes in the code are never good for overall growth. we do need to simplify the code. yes, i would like to see the rates brought down. in response to the isolated question of whether we're holding up something about corporate jet owners is not
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true. if that's such a priority for the president, what we would like to see is offsetting tax cuts somewhere else. at the end of the day, the republicans are not going to support -- >> leader, you want offsetting tax cuts. that doesn't get you anywhere. >> the democrats have to cut spending, that's a cut. you'll do some kind of revenue increase as long as it's cut somewhere else, it doesn't get you anywhere, does it? >> what this is about is we're trying to demonstrate the public we're going to stop spending we don't have. right now, we're borrowing 40% of every dollar we spend. no family, no business can get away with doing that. we're saying significant spending cuts to trillions of dollars to programs that affect billions of people. these are not easy cuts. but the duty is to go back to the people who put us here and say we're going to change this system. we're going to get the fiscal house in order so people at home can get back to work. >> oh here's the issue, if the white house, if the democrats
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are willing to cut the trillions of dollars what you wanted in spending cuts, what is the republican party prepared to do in this negotiation that is hard. >> it is very hard, i think, to first of all sit here and say yes we're going to increase the credit limit of the country when we've got over $14 trillion in debt right now. but, i think all of us believe that america pays its bills just like every family business is expected to. so we look at this as a situation where we can come together and rally around transit dollars and spending cuts as well as reforms to the system, then we can go forward and begin to get the fiscal house in order. this is not easy for anyone to do, david. and i'm hopeful we can get this done so we can begin to grow the economy again. >> all right, talk to the white house today. we'll be watching. eric cantor, thank you very much. >> thank you, david. >> thank you.
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parts of yellowstone national park are closed as they investigate a rare bear attack. a man was mauled to death as he hiked with his wife. george, good morning. >> good morning, ann. rangers say most of yellowstone's major attractions are open this morning as they investigate the fatal bear attack. no one has been killed by a bear inside yellowstone in a quarter of a century, though bear attacks claimed two lives outside of the park last year. rangers are warning people if they see a grizzly to keep their distance, to travel in groups, and along back country trails, to carry pepper spray to ward off the animals. the attack occurred near this area of yellowstone near canyon village. a man and his wife were hiking when they spotted the grizzly and began to back away. >> at some point they then saw that the baerp was coming at them. the husband told the wife that
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she should run. the bear attacked the man and he was fatally jurped. >> the area of the attack has been placed offlimits for now. they believe it was a female defending her cubs. if that was the case, the bear and her cubs have been left alone. park officials would not release the name of the couples. after mauling the man, the bear went after his wife who was lying down, playing dead. >> she was wearing a backpack of sorts, a day pack, grabbed her in some fashion, lifted her up off of the ground and dropped her. and then ran off. >> the grizzly population in and around yellowstone has grown in recent years to more than 600. so bear sightings are miles an hour frequent and visitors are being cautioned to be extra individual la vigilant. >> have the planned hike, we get the information from the ranger as to where the safest place to
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be, approach it that way, or a specific campground. i would not hike one or two people in a back trail. >> yellowstone is a popular place with 3 million visitors a year. bear attacks are still relatively rare. the safest bets is to stay with the crowd as the bears tend to shy away from large groups of people. while rangers believe it was a case of a mother bear defending her cubs, they continue to investigate to rule out the possibility this was an unprovoked attack by a rogue animal. ann? >> thanks for your report. now a check of the top stories from natalie morales at the newsdesk. >> good morning, everyone. one marine died and five others were injured after a marine corps helicopter crashed wednesday at camp pendleton. the incident is under investigation. weather did not appear to be a factor. the end of the don't ask
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don't tell policy could come sooner than expected after a federal appeals court of san francisco ordered the u.s. government to immediately stop enforcing the ban on openly gay servicemen and women. the pentagon said it's complying with wednesday's warning. >> the hotel maid is now asking the manhattan district attorney to recuse himself from the case and appoint a special prosecutor. the accuser's lawyer says he believed the d.a.'s office leaked damaging information to the press. courtney reagan is at the new york stock exchange for us. tell us what's going on, courtney? while that big jobs number is out tomorrow, employment remains a major focus down here on wall street with june's private sector jobs data and the weekly jobless claims numbers both out this morning. meantime, u.s. chain store sales so far are coming in stronger than expected for the month of june.
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hot topics posting better than expected results, but retailer costco the clear winner up thanks in part to the higher gas prices. thank you. >> courtney reagan, thank you. this morning was the first running of the bulls in pamploma, spain. 15 runners have been kill in the chaos. the centuries-old tradition achieved fame thanks to hemingway's writing back in the '20s and '30s. back to ann, david, and marie. >> you want to do that. >> the adrenaline rush from that
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>> we are off to a warm and humid a start. it is dry this thursday morning. as we head into the afternoon, scattered showers and thunderstorms. david, back to you. thank you very much. jaycee dugard, the california woman, spent 18 years in captivity at the hands of phillip and anthony garrido is
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revealing her horrific ordeal in her own words. with get more about the memoir. jaycee dugard is now living in northern california with her mother and half sister. in her new book, jaycee said she's healing from the years of abuse she endured from the garridos. four weeks ago, with the sentencing of phillip and nancy garrido, jaycee dugard closed a dark chapter in her life. >> i think it's fair to say a nightmare has come to an end. >> reporter: behind her now, the terror that began when she was 11, kidnapped by the garridos, and forced to live in a maze of rickty sheds and tents in the back yard of their california home. in her new book, jaycee chronicled the horror she experienced, beginning with her first night in captivity.
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experts say writing about her past will help jaycee heal. >> she gets to put an end to the very dark passage. there are no secrets. >> she sparps no details -- she endures years of sexual abuse by garrido who fathered two daughters with jaycee. at first, garrido handcuffed jaycee to keep her from escaping. later he used other measures.
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but in august of 2009, everything changed. phillip and nancy were questioned by police and jaycee, afraid to even utter her real name, wrote it down for a policewoman. it was like breaking an evil spell. i looked at her and said, i can see my mom? she said, yes. that was her moment of freedom. while others have reported her ordeal since then, it's jaycee's turn to tell her story in her own words. david? >> thank you very much. casey anthony's jailhouse letters and what they reveal about her future out of jail. and first, this is "today" on
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newspaper under fire for wiretapping the families of dead soldier else. >> after your local news.
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liberty road. the major roads are cooperating right now. right on the west side of the beltway, building in volume just a bit. overall, not a bad ride their. tapping the brakes from security down towards 40. in the area of white marsh, going away from us, sat on traffic moving at a good clip. once you get to the beltway, he was tapping the brakes southbound. nice ride at the harbor tunnel. running smoothly at the keybridge as well. tony has a check on the forecast. >> we are off to a dry start, and it should stay that way through the rest of the drive time. we don't expect any rain. air quality is in the poor range today. if you have respiratory problems, you might feel that. warm and humid, a chance for a few scattered showers and thunderstorms. 40% chance you run into one of those.
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temperature goes down tomorrow, but the chance for rain goes up. that is not necessarily bad news. i still think we will wind up with a dry weekend. 87 on saturday. low 90s on sunday. >> check the bottom of your screen for upded news and traffic information. back at 7:55 with another live update.
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7:30 on this thursday morning, july 7, 2011. a bright sunny morning in the plaza. a packed house and we expect tomorrow we'll take over the plaza for a live concert. david gregory is in for matt this morning. >> thank you, thank you for having me. >> just ahead this morning, sentencing day for casey anthony. >> big day. a lot of anticipation. will she cash in on what she's
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got now that she's a free woman. is she planning on having a baby. what surprising jailhouse letters reveal about the future plans. also this morning, new details on a big scandal rocking new england. take a listen to this. a popular newspaper accused of hacking to cell phones targeting everyone from kate middleton to a young murder victim. get details on that. >> speaking of the duchess, the royal couple wraps up their canadian tour today before heading to california. live with them with the latest. >> quick programming note, david. come ing up tomorrow on "today," nadia sulaiman, remember her? the single mom of 14 who gave birth to octuplets back in 2009. she'll be joined by her eight toddlers and two oldest children. how are they doing? what do they like in their home? does she have regrets. nadya suleman when they join us
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here tomorrow on "today". >> eight, that's a lot to get your head around. casey anthony, now that she's been acquitted of murdering her daughter, what will her future hold. good morning, lillian. >> good morning to you, david. here at the courthouse, many are upset about the verdicts saying little caylee did not get justice. casey anthony did nget a fresh start, she'll be a free woman soon, free to talk to publishers and anyone willing to hear her story. >> reporter: she went from a young mother raising a little girl. >> will the defendant rise along with counsel. >> reporter: to an accused murderer instantly recognizable worldwide. >> not guilty. >> reporter: now the dramatic murder trial has come to a close and many are asking if she'll cash in on her newfound fame. >> a child has been killed. to make money out of it -- it's
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not a good idea. >> am i going to buy the book? no way. will people buy the book? yes. >> reporter: whatever casey anthony decides, there's money to be made. >> there's going to be a bidding war, let's not kid ourselves. $750 million on a book deal, most are saying they'll take her. >> reporter: it's called the biggest courtroom shockers since o.j. simpson. >> not guilty. >> reporter: he walked free and wrote a book "if i did it." could casey anthony do the same? >> she's arguably the world's most famous woman today. everyone wants to hear what's happened, everyone wants to hear from her. if she admits it, it's double jeopardy, it's over. >> reporter: casey gave a hint of what she might do. she wrote hundreds of pages of letters to a jailhouse friend, fellow inmate, robin adams. those letters with turned over to authorities. in one letter, casey wrote, i always wanted to adopt a baby or
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a child from another country. she told her friend, let's make a deal, we get pregnant together. in another letter she wrote, i need a vacation, i was thinking costa rica. she even wrote about being famous, saying men call her hot and sexy, gag me, she wrote. is this what celebrities have to deal with? right now some say casey anthony is more of a villain than a starlet in the public eye where she goes from here is all up to her. >> casey anthony will never be able to sell herself as a sympathetic figure to most americans. disgusted by you, curious about you. she doesn't have to be liked or sympathetic to make money. >> in those jailhouse letters, casey anthony said, when she got out, she was going to get a makeover and go blond or red. she can't wait to sit on a comfy
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couch and watch reruns. the first movie she wants to watch, "dumb and dumber."jones legal commentator. samantha guthrie is a legal consultant. how are you? >> good morning. >> savannah, what's the actual procedure? >> it depends on florida. but in most cases, there can be testimony. the judge is going to be considering her background, the severity of the crimes. and the judge will be able to take into account the fact that what she lied about, the fact that they're misdemeanor charges were quite serious indeed. faces up to four years. she served three years in jail. now she had a fraud conviction and she was sentenced to time served on that. i don't think the judge would apply the time served -- you don't get to double bill in terms of time served. while it's possible she'll be let out today, i don't think it's necessarily true she'll be
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let out today. >> that's true. what are the factors that the judge will be weighing given time served and let her go. >> the impact on law enforcement and the resources used on law enforcement because of her lies and the long-term effect of her lies. a child died. we'll never know what absolutely happened to that child. it was directly attributable to these lies that law enforcement was not able to accurately investigate. >> what about the costs? kerry sanders mentioned they've got legal papers, the prosecution does to put her on the hook for that. does she have to reach a certain threshold on what she's trying to learn. >> there could be an attachment to anything she earned. you remember back all those years to the o.j. simpson civil trial what could happen is not only could there be a lawsuit to recover the costs, there could be a fine attached to the sentence today. she may get a minimal amount of
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time left since she's done so much in time served. a huge fine. if she's smacked with $1.5 million fine that she has to pay back, that would be attached to any future earnings. >> talking about o.j. simpson and she did face that wrongful death suit after the acquittal. he became a pariah that's convicted of other crimes. what did she face in that way. fame and notoriety. she seems to be heading toward notoriety. >> it's a different kind of justice. she appears at this moment to be one of the most hated women in america. she has no family support system to speak of. you can't imagine she's going to move home, not just because everybody would know she's there but her family relationships appear to be in tatters because of the defense strategies that were pursued accusing her father, brother, and mother. she faces a hard road ahead, the cost of investigation and prosecution. if the judge did that, he would hold a hearing later to
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determine how much it is. but, yeah, she could be dogged by this kind of thing for the rest of her life. >> star, tell me something else that was sticking out for me is that as much outrage as there may be on the part of this little girl, which is justified, the reality is this government has to prove the case. >> absolutely. >> if the government can't bring a good prosecution, it shouldn't get conviction. it happen in the simpson case, it happened here in a tough circumstantial case and it didn't do the job. >> our job in television or newspapers to not give people unreasonable expectationings. it's really the public's reaction to the verdict. if you listen to the juror last night, i watched that. the juror made it very clear -- they're not sure that this woman was even involved in their -- that baby's disappearance and death. that said to you, the prosecution's statement was wholly rejected. not just well, maybe we didn't
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tie all of the knots. they rejected the prosecution theory. >> could you, on a legal matter, she talked about the jailhouse letters she wanted to adopt, she may want to be a parent. is there anything legally that makes that a difficult road for her? >> i don't think legally? but as a practical matter, i can't believe any adoption agency would not scrutinize an application. she was adjudicated and acquitted. she's still not guilty in the eyes of the law. >> she'll lose some civil penalties, some civil rights. she's 25, she's going to get pregnant tomorrow. thanks very much. we'll get a check of your weather. >> today's weather is brought to you by folgers. the best part of waking up is folgers in your cup. and a great crowd out here in the plaza. we do some makeovers.
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how about before and after. sweet 16 today. >> albany, new york. >> welcome, and happy birthday. >> it's going to be another warm and muggy day across much of the country including new york, taking a look at the afternoon temperatures, 80s and 90s for basically the southern half -- hundreds approaching northern and central texas and oklahoma and the southwest. the cool spot, the northwest. that could be showers rolling through in the pacific northwest. otherwise sunnyrw >> warm and humid this thursday morning. as we head into the afternoon, the atmosphere will create scattered thunderstorms. not everybody will see the rain.
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back now at 7:43 with a scandal that is rattling great britain. the popular tabloid newspaper, "the news of the world" is accused of illegally hacking to the cell phones from everyone from kate middleton to murder victims. michelle has the latest on this. good morning. behind the splashy headlines and world exclusives, the biggest scandal right now is at "the world of the news" itself. it's admitted to hacking to celebrities' cell phones in the past. people have gone to prison over this. citizens targeted may be the families of soldiers killed in battle and murder victims. >> just how low will a tabloid go for a big scoop? >> this is disgusting,
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disgraceful, it could become endemic. it's not just one newspaper group. they've all been at it. >> so appalled, murder victims, terrorist victims who had their phones tapped is quite disgraceful. >> it reached the top of the government over recent allegations and convictions of cell phone hacking in 2005 involving celebrities and the royal house hold. sienna miller was a victim, and hugh grant. >> the popular targets of "the news of the world" hacking was kate middleton, mick jagger, eric clap ton, now perhaps a new low, police suspect that the paper hacked into the voice mail of 13-year-old millie dower whose abduction and murder horrified britain in 2002 while she was still missing. now it gives her family false hope she was still alive.
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>> there are no words to describe how awful this was. it may attempted to tap phones close to the family of madeline mccann. and the terrorist bombings, those families are learning they may have been hacked. >> we were in a dark place. they cannot be allowed to get away with what they've done. >> the prosecution of the paper and the top executives. rupert murdoch is calling the allegations deplorabldeplorable unacceptable, and it will again cooperate with the police. the reporter who served time released a statement saying there was relentless pressure, a aa constant demand for results. for an outraged british public, there is simply no excuse.
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>> interestingly enough, in america, we don't have this kind of journalism yet. hopefully the american taste level is still such that it agrees this is just a bridge too far. it's that check and balance on everything else, then the very fabric of our democracy could be put at risk. >> several big advertisers are pulling out of the newspaper. along come more allegations that the paper may have paid police for information. ann? >> pretty shocking allegations. michelle, thank you so much. coming up next, will and catherine wrapping up their canadian tour as they prepare to head to california. we'll get the latest after this. every day you live with the pain of moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis could be another day you're living with joint damage. help stop the damage before it stops you by asking your rheumatologist about humira. for many adult patients with moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis
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final city on the canadian leg of the north american tour. it's known for the cowboys and the rodeo and the royals are expected to get involved in both. it's one more stop left, the highly anticipated trip to los angeles. kate's first time in the u.s., that could even leave hollywood star struck. as they got one step closer to california, william and kate said good-bye to the northwest territories early wednesday. these canadian rangers seen loading the duchess's now famous wardrobe has caught eyes every step of the way. among those seeing them off, 6-year-old riley oafer who wanted to drive helicopters and idolizes the prince. it's supposed to be a day off, a chance for a little royal r&r. but the duke and duchess added another stop bringing comfort to a small town devastated by wild fires every spring. >> look at everybody here. everybody's spirits are lifted right now. no one is worried about their houses or other things.
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right now it's will and kate. >> while the destination for the royal downtime is guarded, it's widely speculated the newlyweds would escape here, to the canadian rockies somewhere near the xrseenic town of jasper. canada's cow town is gearing up. the young royals are accustomed to a horse or two. but today, they'll saddle up for the famed calgary stampede. they like to say some of the best cowboys are cowgirls. what do you wear for a royal rodeo. >> hope she wears a big western cowboy hat. >> a nicer cowgirl dress with classier boots. >> belt buckles to bling, they better clean up quickly. an a-list hollywood crowd is waiting. nicole kidman, tom hanks, even jennifer lopez all among the celebrities expected to welcome
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the wales. arguably the most glamorous events. everyone is waiting to see what kate looks like as a cowgirl. we'll bring that home for you. >> i'd like to see that on you. >> thanks very much. >> you think it's big enough? we're going to find out. coming up, the alarming rise in eating disorders in older women after this. special k protein shakes -- ♪ a truly great-tasting breakfast shake. with 10 grams of protein and 5 grams of fiber, it's the creamy, delicious way to satisfy... your hunger to help you lose weight. ♪ so you can kick the tin can habit. try special k protein shakes today. so you can kick the tin can habit. what is that? it burns! it's singeing me! woman: i can't see! it's the sun. get out of the office more often with chili's $6 lunch break combos, featuring texas toast half sandwiches.
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>> live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. >> good morning. i am stan stovall. time for another check -- 7:56 -- of the morning commute. >> a few things to talk about out there. lyons mill road and liberty road in owings mills, we are tracking accident. southbound 702, watch for a disabled vehicle. delays on southbound 95. it down to nine miles per hour.
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once you get on to the northeast side, tapping the brakes un harford towards providence on the outer loop. so far so good on the harrisburg expressway, j.f.x. here is what it looks like on the west side. but of the delay, but not at all like we normally see. just past 70, down towards 40. at harford, a heavier in contrast. that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. now let's get the latest on the forecast from tony. >> you notice that the haiti seat -- notice the hazy sunshine. air quality is poor today, so if you have respiratory problems, keep that in mind. it will be warm and humid. texter of sunshine and clouds. later this afternoon, a chance for showers or thunderstorms. better chance for rain tomorrow. expect a high of 85 on friday.
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i still think we will wind up with a decent weekend. we will take it into the low 90s on sunday. >> tony will have to pass on the borders first think in the morning. check on the bottom of your screen for firsnews and
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♪ deep inside no matter where you're from you just can't hide ♪ >> 8:00 on this thursday morning, the 7th day of july, 2001. we have a great group of people outside. spend your morning with us. and if you come back tomorrow, country superstar blake shelton live in concert. he had nine number one hits. he's performing a few of them on our concert stage tomorrow on today. needing time outside on the
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plaza, i'm ann curry with david gregory in for matt. thank you for being here. coming up, a heart breaking story. >> it is. a tough story to talk about a popular and promising high school graduate's life cut short in a violent attack. her exboyfriend, the star football player, is charged with the murder. the victim's father coming up. there's been a sharp rise in eating disorders, we're not talking about eating disorders in teenagers but in women in their 30s and beyond. what's causing this? what's causing older women to have this problem and where can they go for help? a mother of two will share her story coming up. also, it feels like the right time of year to plan a vacation. we'll give you advice this morning. travel and leisure's new list of the best in travel. and the top airlines to get you there. got it all covered. >> we both need a vacation. >> we're going to work on that. >> before we get to anything, though. let's get a check of the news. natalie is at the newsdesk this
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morning. good morning, natalie. good morning, ann, david. good morning again, everyone. a florida judge sentences casey anthony for lying to police. on tuesday, a jury found anthony not guilty of murdering her 2-year-old daughter, caylee. anthony faces four years in prison, but the attorney wants her sentence to time already served and released. president obama is meeting with congressional leaders at the white house today hoping to break a budget stalemate. the republicans refused to raise the nation's borrowing limit, unless democrats agreed to deep spending cuts. treasury secretary geithner has warned that the u.s. will start to default on debt payments next month unless there's an agreement. u.s. homeland security is now investigating a possible new terrorism technique being developed by al qaeda. nbc's justice correspondent pete williams joins us now from washington. pete, good morning. nothing here to indicate a plot in the works. officials picked up intelligence indicating terrorists overseas are talking about trying this as
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a way to smuggle a bomb on to a plane. the u.s. has notified overseas airlines and airports that al qaeda terrorists in yemen are talking about it as a way to evade airport security. >> there's been recent information that indicates the terrorists' interest in using this kind of technique, to defeat on multiple layers of defense. >> terrorists onboard a plane would inject a chemical detonator to the part of the body where the device is planted telling screeners they had to carry a syringe because they had surgery or they can use a radio detonator set off by cell phone. it would not be easy to carry out such a plan. >> you don't know how the explosive would react in the body, how the impact would be in effect because of the body. and you don't know what effect it would have on the individual other than being in the body. not a lot of testing you can do in advance. >> reporter: even so, airports overseas with flights to the u.s. have been urged to increase
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security with physical patdowns, checks of chemicals, more extensive questioning of their reasons for travel and use of small body scanners in the small number of airports that have them. officials say there's no single screening technology that could pick up an implants explosive, so they're depending on the combination of security checks in place at airports now, natalie? pete williams in washington for us this morning, thank you, pete. now a look at what's trending today. a quick roundup of what has you talking on-line. we now know that facebook's promise of something awesome is a new relationship with skype that will let facebook users make video calls on the site. natalie portman's baby name has fans searching yao!. the boy born last month is named alef after the first letter in the hebrew alphabet and represents the oneness with god. it's called a haboob, but the phoenix residents may call it
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the massive dust storm that roared through town on tuesday. twitter users are trading pictures and time-lapsed video of the wall of dust and sharing amusement over the word, haboob. it's 8:04. back outside to david and ann. >> amazing. >> i don't know what the storm is called. in arizona, there's weird weather but that was an incredible thing to see. >> how long did you live in arizona? >> never seen that, seen wild thunderstorms and 100 degree temperatures but -- >> what's going on with the weather. maria is in for al this morning. >> a dry heat. >> exactly. >> we're going be humid here in new york. it's not keeping some people away. this poor girl, you hurt your ankle, how did you do it? >> playing soccer. >> quick healing. feel better soon. still enjoying new york, the sights and the sounds. nashville, scattered showers and thunderstorms today. hot and humid. across the rest of the country, we will see showers and thunderstorms across a good
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portion, including the southeast, the mid atlantic, and on to the central mississippi valley and the pacific northwest, watch out for gusty >> we are off to a quiet start this thursday. as we head into the afternoon, things may change a little bit. not everybody is going to see the rain. back to you. >> thank you so much. a pretty serious story of a small town shaken to its core in new england as a star athlete there was charged with the murder of his former high school sweetheart. the victim's father is speaking out after this. we all have internal plumbing. but for some of us with overactive bladder,
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>> reporter: lauren ashlee just graduated from high school, accepted toe lan university. her future was so bright. >> she had a smile and laughter. >> reporter: one night this week, lauren never came home from work. her father got nervous, went searching in the darkness of night and made a stunning discovery -- her car abandoned next to a lake, no sign of lauren. >> i notified the police the car windows were open and her purse was on the seat and there was no key in the ignition. so i was becoming very concerned at that point. >> reporter: the next morning, a passer by found lauren ashlee's body, and soon, police would hone in on a suspect. lauren's on again-off again boyfriend of three years, nathaniel fujita on a high school football team recruited to play college ball. >> we are very confident that it was about the perpetrator exercising power and control
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over someone he had. >> had until recently, when police say lauren broke up with him, calling it a case of teen dating violence, investigators say lauren's neck was slashed and she'd been strangled with a bungee cord. >> you know what happened to lauren? >> investigators say they found evidence inside fujit a's house, blood on the floor of his garage near bungee cords, bloody clothes and sneakers stuff in a crawl space, along with dirt matching the marshy area where lauren's body was discovered. in court, he pled not guilty as the prosecutors laid out the crime. >> a very strong case of premeditated murder, and potentially extreme atrocity and cruelty. >> at one point, lauren and her accused killer was so close. >> in your life -- >> she interviewed his father for a school project posted on youtube.
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a life so full of promise cut so short while another may be falling apart. >> yes, my daughter is gone. but fornate nate's family, ther tremendous loss too. it's going to go on for a long time. >> fujita is in jail this morning held without bail. police still don't have a motive they don't know what made him snap. fujita's lawyer declined to comment because of respect for her family. >> good morning to both of you. >> good morning. >> let me start with both of you. what do we know at this point about nathanael fujita? >> we don't know anything. we haven't heard anyone speaking about him or his relationship with lauren. it's about power of control. it's not so much of a dating violence, relationship violence.
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if this had been a couple that was a little older, we might have seen this happen in a family where a woman is divorcing her husband and she ends up murdered. >> what is that control dynamic that is somehow unique. >> well, what we're talking about is a personality disorder. somebody who -- it's a level of psychopathy, borderline personality disorder, everything is about you, not about the other person. a real ego problem. so when somebody turns you down, walks away, you're not ready for that, you cannot take that hit to your ego. and unportnafortunately, this w probably seen before. this just did not pop up. it's been a three-year relationship. he exerted more and more power. for what i want to warn young women, does the young man respect you, does he care about your feelings. does he let you make decisions
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on your own or is it about him. if you decide you don't want to cater to him anymore, he cannot take that. >> you hear something about this. it's so awesome. a part of what makes it awful is we're talking about teenagers, new at love, immature, when does it cross over to become the path we're describing. >> it's about violence. we all have the potential to commit a violent act. was he depressed. did he have a previous history or thought about suicide, personality factors, i believe, with the control impulsiveness, he's a teenager, teenage brains are impulsive and don't have enough emotional and behavior control until sometimes the age of 25 and social situational factors. if they had broken up or she had left him, it could have been a rage and he snapped. >> you'll hear in this case which happens to be true, no criminal record by fujita. star athlete and all of the
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rest. that leads you to this question -- where is this coming from? >> 16% of teen murders have no motive at all. but it's the fact that maybe she had broken up with him. and in a fit of rage or passion, he completely lost control. on the positive side, he's alive. he'll be interviewed. they can do an in depth psychological profile and get some insight in to what happens and what makes a promising young man take the life of someone. >> the obvious notion now is what we can glean from the kind of case of what they have against him, what the prosecutor has against him. >> i want to point out something very important here. he did not snap. this is something that's in his personality and has been there all along. he lure lauren to his home to commit -- well, he didn't necessarily plan he was going to kill her, but he was going to win. and women, when they break up with somebody, young women, pay attention to this. you've broken up with somebody, they want to have one last conversation, they just need closure. they're depending on you're a
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we talk about anorexia and bulimia, we talk about teenage girls. but there's a surprising group struggling as well. middle aged women. here's chief medical editor dr. nancy schneider. >> good morning, sit down. >> carrie didn't expect to be here, in treatment for a eating disorder at the age of 41. >> you don't fit in a pair of pants anymore, so you're a big fat cow. yet, here she is, after a desperate intervention. >> my sister said, carrie, you are spiraling out of control. >> what made you hear them? >> i wanted to. i was ready. i'm 41 years old. and it was just time. i was tired. >> a cascade of traumatic events in mid life is a trigger for women with eating disorders in women over 30. >> i didn't realize i still had a eating disorder. >> a recently divorced mom of two and struggling small business owner, eating or not
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eating was the one thing she could control. >> i was losing hair, my gums were bleeding, broken bones, lost the period for three years. i didn't care. what mattered was the scale. >> the body you have now, do you like it? >> i'm learned to. >> learning in treatment three days a week in the treatment center. >> i'm excited i'm getting my hunger cues back. >> she designed a program specifically for women over 35 plus. after seeing an increase of 42% in patients that age. >> they're more sensitive to these sorts of issues and more likely to ask a woman who's older what's going on with your eating or you look like you've lost weight or i'm worried about you. 51-year-old colleen tried to meet her mid life anorexia but she's here to decide if she needs to be hospitalized again. >> i have a daughter who's older. she's 19. so there's definite -- she's
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more aware. so that makes it hard. >> the stakes are high. >> the medical complications of eating disorders get more severe over time. and as they interface with the aging body, we have more to worry about as clinicians who are concerned about these folks. >> experts say, it can be a lifelong journey back to health. and for carrie, it's one day at a time. >> what do you want other women to know. >> that recovery is possible and that it's so much better than living with the disease. >> dr. nancy and carrie are joining us this morning. good morning. >> hi. >> carrie, your daughter called you on it? >> my daughter called me on it. we were talking about it during the segment one time she looked at me and she said, mom, you have a eating disorder. i looked at her, i said you're 10 years old, how do you know
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what that is? and it hit me, i'm emulating it for her. >> your love of her helped to change. >> yes. >> you also had a eating disorder when you were younger in school. >> absolutely. >> nancy, how often when we have the eating disorders when we're younger, do we have them when we're older. >> you talk to someone -- in her 20s she battled this, she would say, i deal with it every day, i think about it every day. it's not something where one day, boom, you've taken the antibiotics and you're cured. it's in your brain and you have to push it back. i think the mid life issues, the divorce, losing a child, some trigger is about control. the heart of most eating disorders is this need to control and the rest of your world is chaotic. >> what explains, then, knowing that why we've seen this steep increase? >> look, i think we loathe our bodies. the three of us sit here prim and proper, all tucked in and what's considered proper attire
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that we might not like to wear in a typical day, but we do it because it's how we present ourselves and society expects it. when you're in the public eye, you raise the bar. when you're a beautiful young blond and you have a very suburban life style, you tell yourself you have to maintain a certain body. >> when i got divorced, i started my own company, a singles company. here i'm coaching the singles clients, the women in the data base saying you're going to be dating now, you better look your best. i was thinking, oh, my gosh, i've got to hold up to that standard. >> the irony of carrie starting that business as a woman with a eating disorder and put herself in a place where she had to look a certain way. >> yeah. >> it was a trap that she had. >> i did. >> what do you say to women listening now who suspect they have eating disorders, maybe in denial. >> i would say if you think you
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have a problem, get help. reach out to a friend, see a therapist, start somewhere. get help, recovery is possible. reach out and get help. >> it is slow. i want middle aged women to understand that even if you've lived with the issues for the rest of your life, you don't want to die from this. dying from a eating disorder is a great possibility if you don't get help. >> thank you >> live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. >> good morning. i am mindy basara. we have sat breaking news courtesy of wbal radio. john mackey has died. he has passed away at the age of 69. more today at noon. now let's get a check on the morning commute with sarah caldwell. >> good morning, everyone. we are looking at a pretty nice start to your commute. belair road and glenarm road,
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only accident we are tracking. you can see the delays on southbound 95. down to eight miles per hour. back out from white marsh to the 895 split. 37 on the west side right out baltimore national pike. let's give you a live view of traffic. pulling away from us, southbound traffic. ok until you get beyond the white marsh exit, and then you back down. harford road, we are hanging on to what side delays on the outer loop. tell me as a check on the forecast. >> no rain just yet. 76 at the airport. 83 downtown. forecast for today, a mixture of sunshine and clouds. scattered thunderstorms possible this afternoon. high temperature of around 91. as we head through the rest of
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the week, a better chance for rain tomorrow. that it will clear up over the weekend. we will wind up with dry weather saturday and sunday. >> thank you for joining us. another update at 8:55. my hero! anyone can be a hero with the new captain america cherry coolatta from dunkin'. america runs on dunkin'.
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now two years later, nadia suleman and her eight toddlers join us tomorrow on "today." ♪ it's all about tonight >> 8:30 now on this thursday morning, the 7th of july, 2011. another beautiful summer day here at rockefeller plaza. and right now, we're moving to one of blake shelton's host of
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nbc's "the voice" is going to be here live. tomorrow here on "today." how cute are you? i'm ann curry outside. coming up, a complete guide to summer. >> it's about time. two popular artists are going to give us the reads on this summer. where to go if you're planning a vacation with travel and leisure editors with the top way to get there. >> what's summer without a cookout. getting a little love. >> news you can use. >> how to make the perfect steak. >> also this morning, live in orlando with the latest on this morning's sentencing of casey anthony. we want to get a check of the forecast. hey, maria. >> good morning, good morning,
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everyone. al would be quite proud of this. look at this. what's your name? >> mark. >> you want to be a weather guy? >> yes. >> i'll pass it along to al. you're as cute as al. take a look at the weather. we have a chance of showers and thunderstorms from the mid atlantic to the southeast to the mississippi valley in to the pacific northwest and the southwest. temperatures sizzling in the southern plains as we get to >> warm and humid this thursday morning. as we head into the afternoon, the atmosphere will create scattered thunderstorms. not everybody will see the rain.
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and back to you. >> thank you so much. coming up next, the airlines, the hotels, the new risks of the best places to travel. but first, this is "today" on nbc.
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8:35. "travel & leisure" magazine's best of 2011. the analyst covers everything from the best cities to the best hotels. "travel & leisure's" feature editor. look at that cover. a lot to talk about. >> so exciting. >> what's the big themes for the magazine? >> i think what we saw is that readers are really excited about wonder lust. the idea of authentic travel,
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adventure, exoticism. six out of ten were african safari lodges. people want to go and get absorbed in a destination. >> whether it's an anniversary or go some place with kids, people asking me where to go. that leads to what we're going to talk about first, the category starting with the world's best cities. bangkok at one, new york city at four which is good to see, istanbul is so hot right now. this stood out for you, why? >> it's a fantastic city. and what's amazing about the result this year is that it rocketed up to this position in fifth place. people love it because it's a combination of asia and europe. it's the only europe, in fact, that straddles both places, the beautiful culture there. i love it for the amazing food, the great hospitality of people, and the decadent shopping. i mean, if anyone's been to the
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grand bazaar, it's something to be reckoned with. >> shopping -- european-like shopping and the history. the ottoman empire. >> great thing to see. great culture. you feel like you have the best of both worlds. >> instability in the foreign relations with turkey. it's a welcoming place. >> i sent people there, i've been there. i felt nothing but incredible warmth. >> best cities back here in the united states, new york city tops the list. good to see, the greatest city around. but charleston is number two there in south carolina. that stood out to you, why? >> charleston, again, is another city that we feel great about it being -- it's done better than it's done in the 16 years that we've done the list. so charleston is great for southern charm, hospitality, and food. the readers will love it because it's very accessible. there's great access to beaches. it's one of the cities where you feel like if you're there on
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family, a family reunion, as a romantic getaway, it's ideal. >> getting through is a factor in terms of top airlines, domestic airlines, people consider things like comfort in the cabin, customer service and value. you can see the list there. what stands out to you there. >> virgin america for the last four years has come in number one basically since the airline started. and i think their winning formula and the other airlines we're seeing here have a winning formula, customer service and comfort in the cabin, wi-fi, getting food when you want it. this stands virgin apart and make people want to fly them. they're starting new routes flying to chicago now. >> some understanding you're traveling with family and whatnot. they're not rushing you through. it's not a shuttle service. taking a little bit more time. >> airlines is running a business about getting in the air. they do it with a smile, it helps. >> in terms of hotels, places to go, we've got some things on the list that are affordable though they may not be in for a splash
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if you know some of the resorts we're talking about. for top results in america -- show the list on the screen here. and park city was a real standout here. the american lodge which in the winter season, very, very expensive. but for the summer, a great deal. >> exactly. you can stay there for $235 a night a third of the price staying through in the wintertime. it's number two in the list of top resorts in the u.s. and canada. it's a hotel outside of salt lake city. right in deer valley mountain halfway up the mountain. you get incredible service, all of what you get in the wintertime. plus access to the outdoors. if you're the kind of guy i think you are, you might like the mountain man facial. >> well, and only 35 minutes from the airport. >> yeah. >> go to the rosewood mansion on turtle creek in dallas is a good deal. tell us about that. >> $187 a night as a part of the more rosewood promotion this summer.
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what's great about that hotel is the readers love it for the service and the food. their sunday brunch is something to be reckoned with, including the complimentary mimosas and the bloody marys. >> the l.a. hotel in boston has a great special. >> another world's best. the top city hotel. small city hotel. and they have, for $255 a night, teenagers stay for free, kids' amenities. they have one of the best restaurants in boston that i love. and 79 of 95 rooms are suites. you're going to get tons of space. >> people don't think about going to a city for the summer vacation. but if you've got kids, it's a great thing to do. >> boston is a great city all around and stay there. >> one quick surprise on winter cars. >> this is unusual. this car got number one -- this is the first time -- a car sharing service that's become very popular in new york. it's maybe the way to the future for how to rent a car. >> it's nice.
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because i'm 6'5". if i'm not driving, i can put the car in my pocket, which is nice. thank you very much. terrific list. we appreciate it. coming up next, the summer's hottest greens. two popular authors reveal their picks. but first this, is "today" on nbc.
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jennifer, give us your top four? >> my top four are "silver sparrow," "faith," "the magician king," and "the story of beautiful girls." >> and harlan, give us your top four. "the faithful place." jeff abbott, "adrenaline." ann packers, "swim back to me," and steve hamilton's, "misery bay". >> let's talk about them one by one. jennifer, you mentioned "the silver sparrow." >> it's about secret families. it's written from the perspective of a girl who is illegitimate. she's the family on the side and her and her mother become a step with the legitimate wife and daughter. the first half of the book is told from the perspective from the illegitimate father and the
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legitimate one. you see it from both perspectives. amazing, amazing read. >> number two -- your number two pick is "faith." >> yes. >> it's written by one of your favorite authors. >> jennifer haigh, the fourth book, the first one won awards. it's about a catholic priest in boston accused of molesting boys. familiar story for anyone who reads the papers. but the story "faith" tells is complicated where everyone is in a way a victim. >> number three is "the magician king" and billed as the harry potter for grown-ups. >> or dirty harry. if you like the "narnia" books, this is a fantasy for grown-ups. a magician goes on a quest. >> the last one is the story of a beautiful girl. >> isn't it a great title?
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great cover. two people institutionalized. run away. it's a dark and stormy night. they give the new baby to a widow and they hide her and it's the story of what happens to these three characters over the next four years. >> a lot of buzz about that book on twitter. >> great. >> you describe it as a cross between "angela's ashes" and "thriller". >> beginning of the story, cop runs away from home when he was 19, girlfriend never showed up, left him a note. 20 years later he finds out she was murdered maybe by a member of his own dysfunctional family. >> "adrenaline" jeff abbott. >> i think he's the next robert
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ludlum. it grabs you the first couple of pages. the man goes to the office. he's a spy. the wife calls him, come down for a second, honey, he comes down, the building blows up, the wife is kidnapped. it gets faster from there. great read. >> going to be a movie at some point. >> number three by ann packerings. >> jennifer loved this story. 100 pagenaud svehla. very poignant, very searing short stories. another novell la at the end which is a coming of age person that is three days later. beautifully written and heart breaking. i loved it. >> the last one on the list was "misery bay" by steve hamilton. >> people asked me, what's the next series, i read all of the robert parker, the sue grafton. what's the next story. steve hamilton-alex mcknight series. it takes place in the upper peninsula of michigan so it's nice and cold, which really is
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great. he's a wonderful writer. >> it's so terrific to have the two of you weigh in on what you should be reading because when you talk about people's books, you're talking about the story line and surprise but also the quality of the writing. >> yes. >> mm-hmm oo. >> which is sometimes difficult to discern when you head off to the cash register. >> thriller or mystery or chicklets, where the writer is shooting high, telling a great story, writing beautifully. but for some, keep the pages turning where you care about the people, you want to find out what happens to them. you can't put it down. >> jennifer weiner and harlan coben, thank you. next time we'll tell you what the decor is going to be. we'll dress appropriately. more coming up, but first here's "today" on nbc.
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today's "cooking school" is brought to you by hellmann's, it's time for real. ♪ she thinks my tractor sexy >> "today's cooking school" barbecuing 101, understanding the basics to make a successful and delicious meal. he's the owner of the mug shot in ft. worth, texas.
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got great things to get to. but i want to start with your basic tools for grilling and barbecue. before we do that, what about terms? there's a different between barbecuing and grilling. >> grilling is directly over the fire. barbecuing is indirect heat, meaning we smoke with, you know, fire around the meat, but not necessarily on the meat. >> right. >> i know from experience, you don't want to mess things up. talk about your top tools and why. >> real simply, when you do top tools, you want to have woodchips and soak your woodchips in water, wine, bourbon, anything you like will give different flavors. soak them first so they can give off a good smoke inside the grill or the barbecue. foil to wrap it off. to create on the direct or indirect side of your grill. you can separate that. hand towels, towels available. meat thermometer. people can't do this all the time and test their meet. >> the thumb test. >> really which is important. >> and the nice pair of tongs and the nice spatula. which is good. >> wine --
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>> hot grill and cold white wine. that's how it works. >> okay. let's get to the first recipe here. >> okay. >> ribeyes. >> so here's the deal. we have a ribeye here. we're going to use peanut oil, not olive oil, it's got a lower flash point. it adds a little bitterness to your steak. you want peanut oil, it's a lot hotter and you can grill high temperatures. >> can i ask you a question -- you grill them high for a short period of time. you take them off of the grill and let them sit. >> let it rest. >> people talk about resting their meat. we're going to rest it and finish the meat. >> they'll continue to cook as you sit it out. >> yes. that's right. >> i get a lot of salt. it's a big steak. lots of salt. more than you think. double what you think. put it on the hot grill like this. >> this is direct heat here. how long on each side. >> for 1.25, 1.5, they say about
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2 1/2 minutes per side. then we're going to let it rest. this is what these are doing here. these are rested. now these are grilling, i'm going to put them on the finish. >> can i ask you the quick thumb test, how do you know? >> feel that, that's a little over rare. we want these medium rare to medium. >> let's go here. >> we've got the -- >> if you have a lid, put your lid down. >> all right. >> pork shoulder. >> talk about some barbecuing. now, here i've got a bone-in pork butt. i left the bone in there. you can buy them boneless, no point. the bone falls right out when you finish anyway. it gives a little more flavor. i'm going to have you make this, here's the rub. the chili powder, rosemary, thyme, cumin. put it in here and mix it up. >> i didn't understand. >> put it -- >> wanted a -- >> wake up, buddy, come on. >> put the it all in. >> all in, all in. >> mix that up.
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>> you did a really good job. you mix it up with a spoon there. we're going to coat this, as you're doing this, i'm going to add some coke. >> really, coke? >> yeah, because we're from the south. and we're going to add some -- [ cheers ] >> jefferson bourbon. and they've got shot glasses here. i don't know why they have shot glasses here. >> comb and bourbon on the bottom. >> i got this for -- when you feel presidential, you feel energy in these guyings. so bourbon and coke and take the rub real liberal. >> looks good. politics and liberals. >> that's it. >> the bourbon and the coke -- >> after you had a bourbon and coke. >> like that -- >> the coke adds a little activity. put that and it tastes just like that. going to cover that with foil. going to put it in a smoker for ten hours. >> ten hours? >> you said ten hours? >> ten hours.
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>> look at this. >> all right, all right. >> i want to say -- >> go to our website, today.com for more on the recipes. >> see what it looks like. >> much more. a "today" exclusive, octomom. she first talked with ann curry about her incredible family. now two years later, nadia and her eight toddlers join us live in our studio tomorrow on "today." tomorrow, blake shelton, live. catch one of the hottest stars on the toyota summer concert series.
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>> live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. >> good morning. i am mindy basara. we have a sad breaking news this morning. john mackey has died. he is the retired hall of fame tight-end of the baltimore colts. today at noon. police are still looking for the man they say vandalized and enforcement vehicle on wednesday. with a hammer, the suspect reportedly smashed the windshield while the camera operator was inside. after the attack, he fled into the woods. police say he had a shotgun but it was not fired. the victim was not hurt.
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>> we are off to a dry start, but as we head into the afternoon, the heat and humidity, we will have a few scattered showers and thunderstorms develop. high-temperature 91. a better chance for rain tomorrow. we will take up to 50% or 60% on friday. i still think we're going to wind up with a dry weekend. humidity should be in a comfortable range. we will take it up to 91 on sunday. >> we will have another weather update at 9:25.
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